The office of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Adviser on Cyprus, Alvaro de Soto, received a piece of mail from overseas today containing a suspicious white powder.
Côte d'Ivoire urgently needs peace if it is to avoid the slide into an abyss of further human rights atrocities and all-out war, according to the report of a United Nations mission dispatched to the country late last month.
The Security Council, which had been briefed on Monday by the chief United Nations weapons inspectors, met behind closed doors today to continue their discussions on the situation in Iraq.
The United Nations Security Council committee monitoring sanctions imposed against the Taliban has added two more individuals to its list of persons and entities subject to the sanctions because of their links to the group or other terrorist operatives.
The top prosecutor for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has announced the appointment of a South African lawyer as her deputy.
A contingent of 176 army engineers from China is set to be deployed in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations mission in the country said today.
A planned interview of an Iraqi by United Nations officials did not take place today after the individual insisted on having a witness present during the questioning, a spokesman for the UN said in Baghdad.
With thousands of people suffering in the drought-stricken region on the southern edge of Africa's Sahara desert, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today appealed for emergency food relief for five countries in Western Sahel.
A long-standing member of a United Nations human rights panel has been named as the Personal Representative for Cuba of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.